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The smell of smoke permeating much of Ottawa Monday morning can likely be blamed on faraway forest fires in Quebec, firefighters and other officials say.
The strong smell of wood smoke in Ottawa prompted firefighters to deploy their trucks to conduct a search throughout the greater Ottawa area.
However, they received no reports of fires Monday morning, spokesman Marc Messier in a statement.